Prepare Yourself It is accomplished. I finally finished the cast recording of Judgment Day, my musical about the end of the world. More than a decade in the making, Judgment Day explores themes like belief, skepticism, judgment, love and loss. And while the framework of the story is based on…

I really wasn’t looking for a job. I had just left my gig at Unity to take a breath, take a look around, and take my sweet time finding the next way stop on a path to building the open Metaverse. But apparently the Metaverse has other plans for me. …

Standards for the Metaverse aren’t just about interoperability; they’re about creating content that stands the test of time. Creators, how many times has this happened to you: your content stops working because the software company that makes the tool you used to create it went out of business? …

From painters to songwriters, creators are taking control of their destiny with web3 — and shaping the Metaverse to come We are inching ever closer to achieving a decades-long dream of an open Metaverse: a global network of shared 3D virtual worlds destined to become the next Internet. But there…

Moving on… and coming full circle. Today is my last day at Unity. After five and half years I have decided to join the Great Resignation. It’s time to go back into the wild. I signed on at Unity in 2016 to help accelerate the company’s expansion beyond its core…

The Time is Now to Prepare for the Coming Immersive Reality In Part 1 of our two-part exploration, Neil laid out his vision of what the Metaverse will be from an experiential standpoint and what that will mean for retail. Neil’s Metaverse is a place to be, and to be…

Making the Metaverse, Chapter One San Francisco. Winter, 1993 In late December, Marina and I completed our cross-country drive and posted up at our favorite bed and breakfast in the Mission District, while we scoured listings at an SF apartment-hunting service headquartered in the Castro. …

A personal history Prologue Boston. Summer, 1993 Go west, young man. Marina and I had pretty much decided we were moving to the west coast. She told me in no uncertain terms, “I’m not turning 25 in Boston.” The clock was ticking. I was working in a Cambridge-based tech startup. My…

A framework for the coming immersive reality Preamble The Metaverse is the next significant development in global communications. The strangeness and novelty of this new digital capability is generating confusion. Ideas abound, unmoored from practice and practical reality. Well-intentioned but naive seekers are grasping for a conceptual foundation on which to…